How To Install deal on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install deal on Ubuntu 22.04. deal is bridge hand generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install deal on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is deal

deal is:

This program generates bridge hands. It can be told to generate only hands satisfying conditions like being balanced, having a range of HCPs, controls, or other user-definable properties. Hands can be output in various formats, like pbn for feeding to other bridge programs, deal itself, or split up into a file per player for practise. Extensible via Tcl.

There are three methods to install deal on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install deal Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install deal using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install deal

Install deal Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install deal using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install deal

Install deal Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install deal using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install deal

How To Uninstall deal on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the deal package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove deal

Uninstall deal And Its Dependencies

To uninstall deal and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove deal

Remove deal Configurations and Data

To remove deal configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge deal

Remove deal configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove deal configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge deal

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install deal package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.